For nearly 30 years the Berlin Wall divided Germany's biggest city in ... Where Checkpoint Charlie once stood, a larger-than-life poster shows an American soldier facing east (and on the poster's ...

Communist East Germany closed its border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, when it erected a wall that eventually turned into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around ...

Located in the center of Berlin, the Berlin Wall Memorial stretches for a little less than a mile along what was once the border that divided the city in two. Upon arriving at the memorial ...

Marc Kusnetz, an NBC News producer, spent the night of Nov. 9, 1989, watching a joyous crowd attack the wall that ... benefits. “Berlin Now” is a wonderful little book — a map to the mind ...

and I continued tracking the wall with the help of my city map, which marked its path in pale gray. I was often unsure whether I was in East or West Berlin. Near the Spree River, 40 minutes from ...

Badly wounded, the sheep dog managed to struggle back to West Berlin. The dachshund lay writhing at the foot of the Wall until a Gropo finally beat it to death with a shovel. Contact us at letters ...

Erected in haste and torn down in protest, the Berlin Wall was almost 27 miles long and was protected with barbed wire, attack dogs, and 55,000 landmines. But though the wall stood between 1961 ...

The building had once been the seat of the German government (and is again today) but in the late 1980s had stood largely unused since World War II due to its proximity to the Berlin Wall looming ...

When dawn came four hours later, a wall divided East Berlin from West for the first time in eight years. The wall was illegal, immoral and strangely revealing—illegal because it violated the ...